Trade Policy & Agreements

A spat at Mercosur’s 30th birthday marked a low point for regional cooperation.

Boris Johnson is looking to old U.K. colonies for trade deals, but his government can’t compete with China and won’t get far until it abandons its neocolonial attitudes.

As Sri Lanka shows, when it comes to Chinese debt, small states have agency and great powers have responsibilities.

“The World for Sale” peels back the cover on the secretive—and sometimes shady—people who make the modern world go around.

Unwinding sanctions will be central to reviving the nuclear deal. If the Biden administration wants a lasting solution, it must involve Iran’s central bank governor.

It could build entire industries, create new jobs, green the economy—and unite the country behind a common purpose.

Consumers will punish brands that rely on forced Uighur labor. While abandoning the Chinese market might hit profits, it will bolster reputations.

Why the push to bring home manufacturing won’t work—and what Biden should do instead.

Supporting the middle class at home and reasserting leadership abroad may be mutually exclusive, especially in Asia.

The president can corner China by bringing one of his predecessor’s foreign-policy initiatives to completion.

The African Continental Free Trade Area is already running up against the hard realities of the continent’s endemic trade barriers.

Biden’s nominee to be U.S. trade representative is admired on both sides of the aisle, but she faces some of the toughest conditions ever when it comes to winning over the rest of the world.

The positive contrast with the European Union’s COVID-19 vaccine debacle has masked a rocky exit from Europe.

France’s state-centered development model is a natural fit for the Indo-Pacific.

Washington should get back in the trade game and use it as leverage against Beijing.

In negotiations with Beijing over a new investment treaty, Brussels has asserted its autonomy from Washington. A human rights focus could repair the transatlantic rift.

After years of neglect under Trump, the region needs fresh attention from Biden.